Business Analyst London, England
Job description
Business Analyst
London
As a Barclays Business Analyst, you’ll primarily focus on regulatory reporting areas within Business area, which includes but not limited to Regulation rewrites projects, Data quality and control projects and Data remediation projects. You’ll partner with Business team and work closely Project team, Operations and wider stakeholders in delivering the changes projects for the business area. You’ll act in capacity of SME for the Business Area and represent technology in regulatory working forums.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances.
What will you be doing?
- Working with Business & Stakeholders to understand scope, suggest improvements, analysing Business needs and finding solutions in line with the vision of the programme
- Demonstrating team work ethic and dynamic attitude through effective interaction with all people involved in the change management cycle
- Working independently to elicit, validate and document systems requirements in user stories, appropriate Acceptance Criteria and business testing stories and outcomes
- Providing expert knowledge to support implementation and any issue resolution
- Participating in full end to end project life management via sprint deliveries
- Contributing into Sprint planning and reviews; show & tells, retrospectives and also daily stand ups
- Monitoring short term goals of the project to ensure that they are being completed within the agreed timeframes to deliver the agreed scope
- Reviewing test cases prepared by the QA teams
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or equivalent
- Good understanding of project delivery methodologies including the software development lifecycle and the role of the business analyst in delivering IT projects
- Experience in communicating with a wide array of people, with good experience of stakeholder management
- Self-motivated team player, with the ability to perform under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Experience in working in Large scale regulatory projects in Investment Bank or Financial Institution
- Exposure to regulatory reporting data/ systems would be advantageous
- Awareness of transaction reporting across various regulations
- Knowledge of the main asset classes traded within an investment bank and associated static data
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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